Beloved 2

"What she called the nastiness of life was teh shock she recieved upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children."

I feel that this metaphor helps to show you the meaning of the book because you can tell that the characters play life like its a game that they are always losing. Because they are african americans living during slavery and not being able to catch a break they have almost desensitized their views of life so much that they feel their own lives simply represent pieces in a game of checkers.